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Service Merchandise! I remember those. Huge catalog. Mail in the order form and pick your order up on the conveyer at the store.

It was kinda a pre-runner to Amazon. Be a good model now with theft out of control.

Dang.

Must can’t sell your high priced hoard now??

😂😂😂😂


Last week academy had Monarch steel case 9mm for $9.99 /50.

Wanna say it’s Phillipine made Armscor ammo.

Shoots good for plinking.

Do those Academy stores have any old wooden barrels out on the floor full of old surplus rifles from far flung countries?

I miss those barrels.

And the smell of mildewed canvas canteen covers.

Nah….

They do have Duke Cannon soaps….

I like Academy shop there often get good deals at times.

Ooh Ooh......................

the Duke Cannon smell.

Like Axe body wash for outdoorsmen???

Gibson's has a great candy and soda selection...

The old original store in Austin did when I was in HS.

As did Gibson’s Discount Stores. That was the best family and sporting goods store chain in TX when I was growing up in the 60’s.
Think of a Walmart, only 100 times better.
They were a TX based chain.
There’s still a couple left. One in Weatherford, TX and one in the Kerrville, TX area.

Though they are NOTHING like they were in the 1960’s and early 1970’s.

Wish we still had Gibsons here. The last one here in Corpus closed about 30 yr ago.

They have good deals at the store in Tomball

It wasn't the boomers in the Hixson, TN Academy. It was guys headed to work or just getting off work. They knew guns and ammo would be out when the doors opened. I was working the gun bar during the Sandy Hook fiasco and young and middle age guys were literally running through the door and nearly running over the ladies working the clothing section to get to the gun counter. Then the question was, "What ARs did you get in". And the guns and ammo did show up for sale in the local paper and on local gun shows. We did have one young guy in our department who found a hidey hole to stash .22 LR ammo before it hit the floor and squirreled away what he wanted.

Bought my first rifle in Gibson's, Odessa TX, in 1971 at age 11. It was a Marline 336 30-30, and since I saved the money for it from sacking 10lb bags of ice, my dad bought a scope for it, a Weaver K4. Still have the rig, unchanged, and still kill a few pigs every year with it.

Brings back old memories they were in Baton Rouge.

The sporting goods counter at the local Gibson's
had those big cabinets with all the parts for
Garcia reels and all the parts for Coleman white
gas lanterns and stoves and the catalytic heater
(the small breakable loseable parts)
Best of all, the stuff they had in stock was all
stuff useable for this region
That was a real store back in the day of
merit based hiring, you had to be qualified and
knowledgeable about wth you were dealing with

Had Gibsons in MS when i was a kid. 80’s. Gone a few years later..

Bought several old timer knives from there.

I can remember the knife display cabinets that sat on the counter top.

Had plenty of fishing gear also. Still have a few zebco 33 and zebco one classic reels that likely came from there.

Yep. Bought nearly all of my guns, ammo, knifes, fishing tackle, hunting gear, and reloading supplies at Gibson’s when I was growing up. We had two of them in Abilene.

Yep. Biggest and best Sporting Goods Department.
Most of them closed in Texas about 1983 or 84.
A company called Strike it Rich took over a lot of the stores. They didn’t last long. Walmart moved on those old buildings about 5 years later. They were “okay” at first, but nothing like Gibson’s as far as the phenomenal amount of sporting goods.

Walmart SUCKS.

We have a couple of academy sports in the area......lve spent a bit of $$ there, but its not my first choice in hunting supplies.

I have purchased a couple of pistols and one rifle from them. Lately its just been casual shoes and clothing.

I'm glad to see everyone appreciates Trump and the Military Patriots.

If they hadn't stepped up when they did we'd be looking at owning nothing, eating insects and liking it.

This outdoor activity for enjoyment would quickly be just another chapter in history, as soon we also would be.

The idea of drving somewhere to shoot, camp or fish would have, under Kilery, become only a memory.

Hard to believe, and a lot never will. The 16 year plan to destroy America would have already turned life over to the CCP and the NWO WEF and Illuminati.

I like the one in Weatherford TX.

Bought a lot of bullets there back in the day,powder too.